Timers used in Bodhgaya blasts made in Guj, bought in Guwahati
New Delhi, July 23: The timers used to trigger explosions in Bodh Gaya were bought from a shop in Guwahati and were manufactured in Gujarat, investigators have found.
Sources
said
sleuths
of
the
National
Investigation
Agency,
which
is
probing
the
July
7
blasts
in
one
of
the
most
sacred
Buddhist
sites,
have
found
that
clocks
attached
with
the
unexploded
bombs
were
manufactured
in
a
plant
in
Rajkot,
Gujarat.
The entire lot of the clocks was sent to Guwahati and a few of the clocks were bought from a shop there by a buyer, they said. The sources, however, said involvement of local hands cannot be ignored as the cylinders tied with the bombs were most probably procured locally in Bihar.
Investigators got enough indications that people with mongoloid features could be involved in carrying out the explosions, the sources said, hinting that involvement of Myanmar's Rohingiya Muslims cannot be ruled out.
There were reports that the multiple blasts were reaction to the alleged violence against minorities in Myanmar's Rakhine province. Two monks were injured following the early morning explosions of 10 bombs in Bodhgaya.
Three other bombs were found unexploded. The temple and the Bodhi Tree, under which Lord Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment, did not suffer any damage in the blasts which shook the holy town frequented by Buddhist pilgrims from Sri Lanka, Myanmar, China, Japan and the whole of southeast Asia.
PTI